History and Philosophy of Physics

Presentations

• A Book by and about Women in Astronomy

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 5:45 PM – April 11, 2022, 5:57 PM

  Publication: The Sky is for Everyone, Eds. V. Trimble & D. Weintraub, in press with Princeton University Press

  Presenters

  • Virginia Trimble

    University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Virginia Trimble

    University of California, Irvine

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• Mach's Principle as a Driving Force for Gravitational Inquiry

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 5:57 PM – April 11, 2022, 6:09 PM

  Presenters

  • Paul H Halpern

    University of the Sciences

  Authors

  • Paul H Halpern

    University of the Sciences

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• From Verifiability Theories to Confined Quarks: History of Physics Informing Philosophy of Science Pedagogy

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 6:09 PM – April 11, 2022, 6:21 PM

  Publication: Dwight E. Neuenschwander, "Letter to a Logician," Radiations of Sigma Pi Sigma, Spring 2014, 22-26.

  Presenters

  • Dwight E Neuenschwander

    Southern Nazarene University

  Authors

  • Dwight E Neuenschwander

    Southern Nazarene University

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• Why Trust Physics? The Discovery and Acceptance of Quarks, 1968-1979

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 6:21 PM – April 11, 2022, 6:33 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Riordan

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  Authors

  • Michael Riordan

    University of California, Santa Cruz

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• The Van Allen Radiation Belts: How their discovery worried lay scientists hungry for human spaceflight

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 6:33 PM – April 11, 2022, 6:45 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrew J Porwitzky

    Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Andrew J Porwitzky

    Sandia National Laboratories

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• What does "problem" mean in David Chalmers' "hard problem of consiousness"?

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 6:45 PM – April 11, 2022, 6:57 PM

  Publication: [1] Suzy Lidström and Roland E. Allen, "Consciousness as the collective excitation of a brainwide web—understanding consciousness from below quantum fields to above neuronal networks", J. Phys: Conf. Ser. 1275, 012021 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1275/1/012021.<br>[2] Suzy Lidström and Roland E. Allen, "What is consciousness, and do we have free will?", in G. Alexander et al., "The sounds of science—a symphony for many instruments and voices", Phys. Scr. 95, 062501 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ab7a35.<br>[3] Suzy Lidström and Roland E. Allen, "Toward a physics description of consciousness", Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 230, 1081 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00097-x.

  Presenters

  • Suzanne Lidstrom

    Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • Roland E Allen

    Texas A&M University

  • Suzanne Lidstrom

    Texas A&M University

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• Relationship between Science and Application in the 1 Million Year History of Artificial Lighting

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 6:57 PM – April 11, 2022, 7:09 PM

  Publication: Dakin JT. Wrestling with Light – History, Science and Applications. New York, NY: AIP Publishing; 2021. (published 23-Nov-21) https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/9780735423992

  Presenters

  • James T Dakin

    General Electric Corp

  Authors

  • James T Dakin

    General Electric Corp

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• A Brief Astronomical History and Analysis of Saturn’s Rings

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 7:09 PM – April 11, 2022, 7:21 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin H Meleton

    Author

  Authors

  • Benjamin H Meleton

    Author

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• When theory-guidance walks hand-in-hand with experimental exploration: the case of Beyond the Standard Model searches at the LHC

  ORAL

  April 11, 2022, 7:21 PM – April 11, 2022, 7:33 PM

  Publication: A paper is in preparation, but not yet in preprint.

  Presenters

  • Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin

    Tufts University

  Authors

  • Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin

    Tufts University

  • Kent Staley

    Saint-Louis University

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